The fashionable rise of Cara Delevingne

Raised in a mansion in the prime central London location of
Belgravia, Delevingne attended Bedales boarding school in Hampshire,
where she was spotted by Storm Models founder Sarah Doukas, whose own
daughter attended the establishment

Cara Joceyln Delevingne (bottom, right) was born in August 1992 to
Charles, a property developer whose father was a viscount, and
Pandora, a personal shopper. She has two older sisters, Chloe (left) a
biomedical science graduate who has just had a baby, and Poppy
(right), who is also a model

Delevingne's first modelling assignment may have been for shot by
Bruce Weber for Italian Vogue when she was 10 years old, but she
really began earning a crust when she was tapped to model for online
retailer ASOS

Cara and the lesser seen older sister Chloe Delevingne attend the
Roberto Cavalli 40th Anniversary Party back in 2010

Burberry came calling in 2011, when chief creative officer
Christopher Bailey asked Cara to become the face of its April showers collection

Cara was then welcomed into the 'Burberry family', and bestowed the
honour of regularly opening or closing the British fashion giant's
London Fashion Week shows, as well as posing for its beauty campaigns

In 2012 Cara proved she was a real fashion cameleon when she stepped
out on the runway for Blumarine

A slew of brands then came knocking at her door, which saw Cara go on
an international catwalk marathon during the bi-annual fashion shows.
Her good humour and penchant for pulling funny faces made her a
favourite backstage and on shoots - not to mention a hit on social media

At 20, Cara scored her first Vogue cover in March 2012. Clearly
considering it an honour, she said she felt inclined to buy 20 copies
of it and explained: "I'm only 20 years old, it's such an amazing
thing to be asked, it's incredible."

With Condé Nast International president Nicholas Coleridge as her
godfather and Joan Collins for a glamorous godmother (pictured), Cara
was rubbing shoulders with the right set from an early age

In 2012 Cara made her debut in the annual Victoria's Secret catwalk
show, a headline-grabbing lingerie extravaganza broadcast to millions
in the US. Featuring only the world's most beautiful bodies, Cara was
asked to return in 2013

In the same year the bushy-browed Londoner made her silver screen
debut with the small role of Princess Sorokina in Joe Wright's Anna
Karenina alongside Keira Knightley and Jude Law

2012 was also the year that Karl Lagerfeld picked and photographed
Cara to front French fashion house Chanel's Resort 2013 campaign. The
images saw Cara play a naughty Marie Antoinette-style character in the
collection, which had been revealed some months earlier at Versailles

Cara topped off 2012 with a trophy from the British Fashion Council.
Why? Because a panel of industry insiders deemed her to be the model
of the year. Not bad for someone who doesn't take it all that seriously

Cara was seen supporting Children in need back in 2012 when she
paired up with this beautiful bear designed by Sibling that went to
auction to raise money for the cause

You'd think all the success would have gone to the model's head, but
she still has time for her elderly grandmother, 'Gaga' who is over 100
years old and who she credits for her generously bushy eyebrows

Delevingne loves to party, and when she's in London can be seen
hiding from the paparazzi behind cars with her model besties

At the 2013 Cannes Film Festival Cara impressed crowds at the Great
Gatsby premiere wearing a black lace Burberry dress, while allegedly
turning down the advances of hollywood heart throb Leo Di Caprio

Delevingne returns to the Victoria Secrets runway in 2013 in a black
lace number along side model friend Jourdan Dunn

In May 2014 Cara introduced her baby into the world… Cecil Bunny
Delevingne, via his own Instagram account of course. The adorable
dwarf rabbit looks like he hopped off the pages of Beatrix Potter's
Peter Rabbit, and currently has 105,000 devoted followers

In the absence of a creative director, Delevingne was invited to take
the design reigns at Mulberry in February 2014. The result is a
capsule collection of playful yet practical rucksacks which were
debuted in a woodland-themed room at Claridge's Hotel during London
Fashion Week

DKNY, another brand for whom Delevigne is a campaign star, also asked
her to design a 15-piece capsule collection which will launch in November

In June she made her TV debut in a short, one-off Sky Arts drama
titled Timeless. She starred alongside acting veteran Sylvia Syms, who
compared Delevingne to a young Audrey Hepburn

Cara became the new face of Topshop for their Autum Winter campaign
in 2014 and has become synonymous with the brand ever since

Cara joined modelling royalty when she joined Kate Moss to be the
faces of the latest Burberry campaign in 2014

Cara won the breakthrough actress award at the Elle style awards back
in February and appears to becoming an unstoppable force in both the
fashion and acting world

Cara seen taking a break from the runway to watch the Burberry AW15
show along side sister Poppy, Kate Moss and Mario Testino

Tag Heuer call her "the most disruptive It Girl of the
moment" and as such made Cara the brands female ambassador

Modelling here for Chanel AW15, Delevingne's is set to be stomping
the runways of the worlds top brans for seasons to come